Task: procuring cuckoo to sing in winter

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Task: procuring cuckoo to sing in winter.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.3.1.1

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Filed under Task: bringing berries in winter. Reductio ad absurdum: father is sick from snake-bite (impossible in winter). (Cf. H952.)

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